Christine Preston

The Royal Road: El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe

by Christine Preston

Publisher's Description

This historical/pictorial monograph traces the course of the ancient trade road, El Camino Real, from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Christine Preston's color photographs reveal all the hardships and rewards of the journey, which traversed the bad lands of Southern New Mexico as well as the fertile Bosque of the Rio Grande and the riches of the Cerrillos hills turquoise mines.